Synopsis

Plot

The episode starts off with the Robinsons relaxing in their garden. Mr. Robinson is mowing the lawn, but cuts a blade of grass too short, and his wife complains about the rest of the grass being slightly taller. Gumball and Darwin blow through the Robinson's fence, and offer to cut the rest of the lawn. Mr. Robinson tries to object, but the boys trim it anyway. However, the same blade of grass is cut too short again, and Gumball pulls on it. This somehow destroys the Robinson's lawn, trees, and fence, and Mr. Robinson starts yelling at the boys. But Mr. Robinson's anger is too much and it causes a rip on his head, making him lose a lot of stuffing and collapse face first on his ruined garden.

As an ambulance arrives to take Mr. Robinson to the hospital, the paramedic asks Mrs. Robinson if there is anyone to donate stuffing for her husband's transfusion. Due to Mrs. Robinson's language barrier, Gumball and Darwin answers that their son Rocky can help, but Mr. Robinson momentarily regains consciousness to yell that he refuses to receive help from his disgraceful son before collapsing again. The boys still make up their mind to save Mr. Robinson.

Gumball and Darwin try breaking the news to Rocky at school by hiding a note in a brownie, which accidentally makes him choke. The trio then discuss that in order for Rocky to save his dad, he has to get a real office job. The group meets in Gumball's bedroom to find Rocky an office job, but all internet search results point to Chanax Inc. After a short résumé and spraying a business suit on Rocky, they are ready to give the interview to Chanax. Gumball gives Rocky a walkie-talkie if his nervousness gets the better of him. During the interview, Paperball is skeptical of Rocky's résumé, but nonetheless hires him, who has to sign a contract, give away his hope and dreams, and exhale into a bottle for Mr. Chanax.

Gumball and Darwin then visit Mr. Robinson in the hospital, but his wife is nowhere to be seen (she is instead off partying with a bunch of sailors at the beach). They tell him that Rocky has got a job so that he can be proud of him. Mr. Robinson is happy to hear of his son's maturity and tries to shed a tear but fails. Unfortunately Rocky is swamped with work and can not come to donate stuffing. The two say that they will stay with Mr. Robinson day and night until Rocky's arrival but the thought of having the two boys torment him is enough to cause Mr. Robinson to lose more stuffing, making him resemble an empty sausage. With so much stuffing lost, Mr. Robinson does not have much time left, causing the boys to hurry back to retrieve Rocky.

At the Chanax Inc. Headquarters, Gumball and Darwin tell Rocky of his father's condition and plead with him to come with them immediately, but Rocky does not hear them, and an office employee tells them that Chanax owns Rocky's spirit since he signed the contract and that leaving is impossible given that he himself has been stuck here for forty-seven years straight, missing all his moments in life. Regardless, the boys decide that the best way to free Rocky is to rip his contract. After navigating through the dangerous maze of the archive department, overcoming massive stacks of paperwork, and getting past the secretary, the trio manages to reach the elevator to the head office of Mr. Chanax.

However, they only meet Paperball, who then reveals his boss, Mr. Chanax, by uncrumbling himself. The CEO of Chanax Inc. gloats that Rocky belongs to him and begins to exert his control over Rocky by humiliating him. The boys then tell him that they are here to free Rocky's spirit, but Mr. Chanax will have nothing of it as they now know his secret. He tries to exert control on them but forgets the fact that only he can control those who signed his contract. Desperate, he warns them that he will drink Rocky's spirit in the bottle, but Gumball says that it is just a jar of old breath, and rips Rocky's and all of his co-workers' contracts. Defeated, Mr. Chanax crumples back into Paperball (free from the control of Mr. Chanax) who promptly collapses, and every employee in the building regains their spirits, including Rocky. With their friend back to his senses, the three hurry back to the hospital while the employees hear the news that the Goblin assistant of Mr. Chanax has been promoted to CEO by the shareholders due to Mr. Chanax's "retirement" and tells them to get back to work, earning a groan from everyone in the building.

At the hospital, Mr. Robinson groggily wakes up from his stuffing transfusion, which was a success thanks to Rocky's rather large donation. He says to his son that he and Margaret are proud of him, with his wife immediately arriving without him noticing her hiding a wedding veil and shooing her would-be rebound husband. Rocky, however, reasons with his dad that he cannot live to be like his father and decides to return to his janitor job. Though Mr. Robinson says that he understands, on the inside he is raging up a storm and the heart monitor tied to him is overloading. Gumball asks him, "Are you really sure? Cause it looks like you're about to..." but is unable to finish, as the heart monitor explodes, ending the episode.

Gumball's facepalm is a direct reference to the popular "extreme facepalm" meme.

When Gumball, Darwin, and Rocky entered the room with the giant stacks of paper it might be a reference to the "Symmetrical Book Stacking" from Ghostbusters.

When Gumball, Darwin, and Rocky were in the room where the filing cabinets were moving and the spooky voice calling to them might be a reference to the game Batman: Arkham Asylum when Batman was in the morgue and the same thing happened to him.

The camera Darwin uses to take a picture of Rocky for his resume looks similar to the old Instagram logo.

The Chanax Inc. secretary transforms into a creature resembling a Licker from the Resident Evil video games.

Goofs/Errors

After Darwin screams over the skeleton, Rocky's eyebrows go missing for a few seconds.

In the room with the towers of paperwork, Gumball yells and slams the door, but explains soon after that any loud noise would cause them to be buried under the paperwork.

When Mr. Chanax is interviewing Rocky, the word "operating" on the plaque is misspelled "operationg."

At School

Gumball: Oh, I know! With a song! [Dances and sings] ♪ Hey Rocky, we got some awful news! Your dad is sick 'cause we made him blow a fuse! Yeah! ♪♪ You got a better idea?

Darwin: No, I got a much better idea. We just need to sweeten the news a little bit.

[Cut to Gumball holding a brownie]

Rocky: Ah! Brownie! Sweet! [Eats the brownie but suddenly chokes on it and after collapsing spits out a message which says "YoUR DAD iS iLL"]

The Janitor's Closet

Rocky: Oh. Man, this is pretty hard to digest.

Gumball: Too much butter?

Rocky: I meant the news about my dad.

Gumball: You have to go to the hospital, man. He needs you.

Rocky: I don't know. I've always been such a disappointment to him.

Darwin: Has he ever actually said that to you?

Rocky: More times than I count on my hands. [Counts on his puppet hands] So at least five. He thinks I'm an immature deadbeat who never left school, refuses to get a decent job, and dresses like a Canadian.

Darwin: Well, are you?

Rocky: Totally.

Gumball: Well, we've got some news for you. You're gonna man up, wear a suit and tie, and get an office job!

Rocky: An office job!? [Panics; Faints]

Gumball: Eh. At least you get a brownie. [Throws brownie into Rocky's gaping mouth]

At The Watterson's Home

[Gumball searches on the internet]

Gumball: Office jobs…

[Internet instantly chimes in with "-work at chanax inc" all over the search results]

Darwin: All the options say "work at chanax."

Rocky: CHANAX?! They're the worst corporation on Earth! They pollute, they cut down the rain forests, their boss invented boy bands...THEY'RE PURE EVIL!

Newspaper Employee: Now. I feel obliged to ask, how do you range your communication skills?

Rocky: [Opens mouth]

Gumball (through radio): …

[Outside, Gumball takes out the batteries of his radio. Darwin tries to open a pack of batteries]

Gumball: Dude! The batteries are dead! Give me the new ones!

Darwin: [Bites battery pack] I'm can't open- [Teeth pop out]

Gumball: Rocky, try to stall him!

[They try to tear the pack open. Then they hear Rocky whistling the same song earlier with his butt. Gumball facepalms repeatedly, until his hand goes through his face. Inside, the newspaper employee stares for a while]

[He tries to take Rocky's typewriter away, but it is stuck on the desk. Darwin pushes over a stack of papers]

Gumball: Thanks. Come on Rocky! We're getting your spirit back!

[Back at the hospital, Mr. Robinson is struggling]

Gaylord Robinson: [Coughs; Weakly] Rocky…

[At Chanax Incorporated, Gumball and Darwin run while pulling Rocky's soulless body through the building]

Darwin: How are we gonna get his spirit back?

Gumball: We need to get to the boss' office, and get him out of his contract!

[They stop by a building map]

Gumball: All we have to do is to go through the accounting department, then the archive department, then the secretary's desk, then the...

[Voices from the cabinets around interrupt him]

Cabinet Voice: [Whispering]What about your Christmas bonus? What about your dental plan? What about a raise??

Rocky: Yeah...what about a raise?

Darwin: We need to run! THIS PLACE IS EVIL!

[They run through the walls of cabinets that are closing in on them. They manage to reach the door before they were crushed]

Cabinet Voice: [Whispering]What about a promotion???

Gumball: [Echoing] NO! [Slams door shut]

[They enter a room full of paperwork. Stacks of documents stretch up to the unseen ceiling]

Darwin: Whoa…

Gumball: Shh! One loud noise, and we'll all end up under an avalanche of paperwork.

[They walk through the paper. Rocky begins to sink into it]

Gumball: [Quietly] Come on, man! We're nearly there.

Rocky: [Mutters] So warm, it's like it's just been xeroxed...! [Sinks into paperwork]

Gumball: [Quietly] Rocky, no! Darwin, help!

Darwin: It's okay! I got his other hand.

Gumball: Wait, what? [Pulls out Rocky]

[Confused, Darwin pulls what he grabbed and sees the skeletal remains of an employee]

Gumball: No, don't!

[Darwin screams aloud, and the stacks of paper fall down. They retrieve Rocky, and run towards the next door. Just as they are buried, Gumball opens the door and they slide into the secretary's desk. Gumball and Darwin get up, and dust themselves off]

[She jumps on them anyway. But she misses, and crashes through the window, and out of the building. Gumball looks down at where she fell]

Gumball: [Inhales] Feels like I should say something clever, but I got nothing.

[The scene cuts to them waiting in the elevator]

Darwin: Look's like she found us a window.

Gumball: [Sighs]

[They come out, and walk to the newspaper employee at the boss' desk]

Newspaper Employee: You were the first people to ever make it to this office. Congratulations.

Gumball: Where's Mr. Chanax?!

Voice: [Monster voice] Let them see me!

Newspaper Employee: Yes...master.

[He unfolds himself, and reveals a face inside of him which belongs to Mr. Chanax]

Mr. Chanax: I am Mr. Chanax! I believe this is what you came for? [Takes out the jar from earlier; Removes the cap and inhales the air inside] Mmm. That's right! I feed on the spirits of my employees. [Gesturing to Rocky]Kneel before your master!

[Rocky kneels]

[Mr. Chanax laughs. He manipulates Rocky like a marionette]

Mr. Chanax: That's right! Dance, my little puppet. [Laughs]

Gumball: [Stops Rocky] Enough! Let him go!

Mr. Chanax: Oh, but I'm afraid no one can leave...not now you've discovered my secret! [Gestures to Gumball and Darwin]

Gumball: That's not his spirit, man. It's just a jar full of old breath. [Rips contract]

Mr. Chanax: Nooooo![Shrivels]

[Mr. Chanax crumples once more into an unconscious newspaper employee. The employee gasps a final time before collapsing. Then the soulless office workers stop working, and regain their souls]

Soulless Office Worker: [Gasps] I'm free! I'm finally free!

Rocky: [Turns back to normal] What happened?

Darwin: No time to explain! We're going to the hospital!

[They get in the elevator. Then the goblin appears, and announces to the workers]

Goblin: Dear employees, after four-hundred years in the business, Mr. Chanax has decided to pursue new goals, and spend more time with his family. The shareholders have named me as his replacement. Thank you very much. [Demonic voice] NOW GET BACK TO WORK, SLAVES!

[The workers groan]

Back At The Hospital

[Mr. Robinson groggily wakes up, and sees a Bandaid doctor]

Bandage Nurse: It's a brave boy you got there, Mr. Robinson. He gave a lot.

[Mr. Robinson looks at his side, and sees his son]

Rocky: [Weakly] It was nothing.

[He lies down, revealing he is flat from having so much stuffing removed from him]